Screen LibraryThe Presidents of the French Fifth Republic
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| Group Author: | ; |
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| Published: |
Palgrave Macmillan,
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| Publisher Address: | Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire |
| Publication Dates: | 2013. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: |
French politics, society and culture series |
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| Carrier Form: | xvi, 219 pages: ; 23 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9780230285224 (hardback) 0230285228 (hardback) |
| Index Number: | D756 |
| CLC: | D756.52 |
| Call Number: | D756.52/P933 |
| Contents: | "This volume brings together French and British scholars of France to analyse one of French politics' most intellectually compelling phenomena, the presidency of the republic. It examines the strengths and weaknesses of that leadership as well as the way that executive power has been established in the Fifth Republic; how presidential power and the subsequent full scale development of "personality politics" developed within an essentially party-driven, democratic and, most importantly, republican system. Hence the authors in this volume examine the phenomenon of a strong presidency in the Fr |